Five years. This guy sat through five years of WinZip nagging to get this screenshot. There's a reason companies don't really do shareware nowadays, and I think we've found it.

To be fair, old WinZip was never really shareware. Given that it never stopped working, it was more akin to really naggy donationware, with a stern warning instead of the customary sad, human plea. It goes without saying that new trial has a hard time limit, but by now it's been rendered more or less irrelevant by better, free-er alternatives, including Windows' built-in archiving software. WinZip plumbed the depths of human stinginess, and never found the bottom. Thanks for trying!

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Anyway, five years is pretty impressive, but I'm willing to bet you guys can do better: who among you, cheapskate Gizmodians, has hobo-hitched the WinZip train the furthest? [Reddit]